[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 11/29/02 ]
Life U founder wants inquiry 
The Associated Press 

Life University's founder and former president is calling upon federal agencies 
to scrutinize the body that revoked the school's chiropractic accreditation.
Sid Williams made the request after the university announced it wouldn't be 
able to apply for accreditation from the Council on Chiropractic Education until 
June 2004.
Williams said the council's decision is an obvious attempt to close down the 
28-year-old university, which once boasted an enrollment of 3,500 students.
"It is now painfully obvious that the accrediting body has an agenda that 
includes no other goals but putting Life University out of business," Williams 
said, adding that the council's decision "will set chiropractic back many 
decades."
"The actions of the CCE, with the impact they have had on the lives of 
thousands, and with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake in the education 
marketplace, demand the scrutiny of all government agencies," Williams said 
in a statement Wednesday.
Williams also listed a litany of concerns and issues that he said will be the 
subject of extensive debate and possible litigation over the next couple of 
months.
For example, he argues that the council is discriminating against conservative 
schools that base their chiropractic education on the traditional "subluxation" 
approach, which contends that many ailments can be solved with adjustments 
to the spinal vertebrae.
The council "wants to drive chiropractic education across the traditional 
boundaries at the expense of core ideas of chiropractic," Williams wrote.
Council members declined Wednesday to comment on Williams' assertions.
Life University was stripped of its chiropractic accreditation June 10 and lost an 
Oct. 10 appeal to lift the revocation.
Newly appointed President Ben DeSpain told several hundred students at an 
assembly Nov. 22 that Life would have to wait until June 2004 before reapplying 
to be accredited by January 2005.
The council requires a two-year window of compliance before a school can 
apply for accreditation.